KMY_Amber
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...the game plans or the coordinators. Yeah, I know it's only one game, but that was some lackluster play calling on both sides of the ball.
Defense
Did you watch any Rams tape from the last 2 years, Nolan??? They'll run and do bootlegs with that WR flashing from side-to-side until you stop them. You gotta stop that to get them into their other formations. So why did they go most of the first half running the same crap, and people were open every time they bootlegged???? Come on, man! If you don't stop anything else, you design the defense to stop their "bread and butter", you take away Goff's first read. Make him hold the ball, as everyone knows if he has to consistently make a 2nd or 3rd read, he'll make mistakes. Piss poor coaching, schemes and execution, by the defense and the coaching staff. It was just too easy in the 1st half, and even into the 3rd quarter.
And don't get me started on the first half defense, with not only little blitzing, but little deception. So of course McVay and Goff knew what defense we were in the entire first half, and they picked the Cowboys apart. Only in the 2nd half did we start to see LB blitzes and such. Why wait that long????
Offense
It looks pretty much the same as last year's. No new wrinkles, no timely WR or TE screen passes, no solid Red Zone plays, no motion, nothing. Just the same vanilla stuff, not making the defense second guess themselves. The Moore experiment is almost over, IMO, because if this is all he and Dak can come up with (you too, McCarthy!), if this all ya'll got after an entire off season, it's not enough...especially not in the Red Zone when you sometimes need to outsmart the defense. Can't believe they went for it on 4th down, and didn't have a "super effective" play called, though that was a decent play, but you have to tell the CD to run a 4-yard route on 3rd and 3, not a 2-yard route. Such poor execution, but somewhat expected by a rookie. **sigh**
The one bright spot for me was the Special Teams. They just looked, better. More aggression, and better schemes. Don't know about Greg The Leg yet. He can kick it from 60, but his accuracy is suspect...after an injury he suffered a year or so ago. Hec, before his Rams injury, he was money, extremely accurate. After the injury, he's never been the same. Of course he's good enough for the Cowboys though. Expect every FG to be an adventure.
I know it's early, and I know the NFC East stinks, but the Cowboys are still pointing towards mediocrity at this point. Let's see how well McCarthy, Nolan and Moore can adjust schemes and strategies over these next few weeks...cutting them a little slack since there was no preseason.
None of this is helped by Jarwin's injury on offense or LVE's on defense. LVE = the new Sean Lee What a glorious start.
Defense
Did you watch any Rams tape from the last 2 years, Nolan??? They'll run and do bootlegs with that WR flashing from side-to-side until you stop them. You gotta stop that to get them into their other formations. So why did they go most of the first half running the same crap, and people were open every time they bootlegged???? Come on, man! If you don't stop anything else, you design the defense to stop their "bread and butter", you take away Goff's first read. Make him hold the ball, as everyone knows if he has to consistently make a 2nd or 3rd read, he'll make mistakes. Piss poor coaching, schemes and execution, by the defense and the coaching staff. It was just too easy in the 1st half, and even into the 3rd quarter.
And don't get me started on the first half defense, with not only little blitzing, but little deception. So of course McVay and Goff knew what defense we were in the entire first half, and they picked the Cowboys apart. Only in the 2nd half did we start to see LB blitzes and such. Why wait that long????
Offense
It looks pretty much the same as last year's. No new wrinkles, no timely WR or TE screen passes, no solid Red Zone plays, no motion, nothing. Just the same vanilla stuff, not making the defense second guess themselves. The Moore experiment is almost over, IMO, because if this is all he and Dak can come up with (you too, McCarthy!), if this all ya'll got after an entire off season, it's not enough...especially not in the Red Zone when you sometimes need to outsmart the defense. Can't believe they went for it on 4th down, and didn't have a "super effective" play called, though that was a decent play, but you have to tell the CD to run a 4-yard route on 3rd and 3, not a 2-yard route. Such poor execution, but somewhat expected by a rookie. **sigh**
The one bright spot for me was the Special Teams. They just looked, better. More aggression, and better schemes. Don't know about Greg The Leg yet. He can kick it from 60, but his accuracy is suspect...after an injury he suffered a year or so ago. Hec, before his Rams injury, he was money, extremely accurate. After the injury, he's never been the same. Of course he's good enough for the Cowboys though. Expect every FG to be an adventure.
I know it's early, and I know the NFC East stinks, but the Cowboys are still pointing towards mediocrity at this point. Let's see how well McCarthy, Nolan and Moore can adjust schemes and strategies over these next few weeks...cutting them a little slack since there was no preseason.
None of this is helped by Jarwin's injury on offense or LVE's on defense. LVE = the new Sean Lee What a glorious start.
